Today’s post is the latest in a series examining how teachers can help students see how learning about science and math are relevant to their lives. Today’s post will focus on science. Bertha Vazquez ...

By rooting their professional development in learning science, this district helped teachers figure out which strategies to use more frequently, and which to retire.

Daniel Willingham is a cognitive scientist, by which I mean, he is an academic researcher who extracts information from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and ...

And that’s why most successful people take a research-based approach to learning faster and retaining more. Like: According to a study published in Applied Cognitive Psychology, students who watched ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? The desire to learn is partly a preference for novelty: we ...

Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...